Join us for our new regular live classical music event at Forest Arts. For April welcome the cello and piano Duo Fantaisie for a lunchtime concert featuring works from Bach's gloriously expressive Cello Suite No.3 through to Gershwin's laidback tune, Summertime.
Franz Schumann Fantasiestucke for Cello and Piano
JS Bach Suite No. 3 for Cello Solo, three movements
James MacMillan Lumen Christi and Barncleupedie
Erik Satie Gymnopedie No. 3
Amy Beach Extase from Three Songs Op.21; Chanson D’Amour
George Gershwin It Ain't Necessarily So; Summertime; I Got Rhythm
Duo Fantaisie was formed in Autumn 2019 at the Royal College of Music, London, and consists of New Zealand cellist Lavinnia Rae and Scottish pianist Iain Clarke. Aiming to combine the popular canonic duo works with contemporary, groundbreaking new music, the duo successfully auditioned for the Royal College of Music’s Gateway programme in 2019 for professional performance engagements in and around London, receiving highly positive feedback on their ensemble dynamic.
Lavinnia Rae is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, completing a Master of Performance in Orchestral Artistry in association with the London Symphony Orchestra, under the tutelage of principal cello Rebecca Gilliver. She also holds a MPerf with distinction from the Royal College of Music, London. As an orchestral cellist, Lavinnia recently performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and has been principal cello of the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, the Repertoire Orchestra, and a member of the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra. In 2020 and 2021, Lavinnia was awarded a full scholarship for the Music Academy of the West Festival in California, and last year attended the Hellensmusic Festival in Herefordshire for intensive chamber music performing alongside Lawrence Power, Tom Poster, and Maya Iwabuchi.
Iain was born on the Isle of Arran, Scotland, and is studying on the Artist Diploma in Collaborative Piano course at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in London. On this course, he is studying with Kathron Sturrock, Simon Lepper, Nigel Clayton and Danny Driver, supported by the Caird Trust and other generous grants. He gained his Masters degree from the RCM in 2021 with Distinction, studying with Danny Driver, and his Bachelor’s degree in 2019 from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) with First Class Honours, studying with Jonathan Plowright and Heather Slade-Lipkin.
He has performed extensively across the UK in venues including Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, Usher Hall and Glasgow City Halls, including professionally with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in November 2019. Recent performance highlights include Rachmaninoff’s Cello and Piano Sonata, Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and Hindemith’s Kammermusik No.1. In 2015, Iain was awarded first prize in the National (UK and Ireland) final of the Rotary Young Musician, and in 2018 he was awarded 1st prizes in the RCS’s Dunbar Gerber chamber music and Lamond Prize solo piano competitions. In July 2022 he will perform in Austria with the Grafenegg Orchestral Academy, and from September will return to the RCM as their Collaborative Piano Fellow with the Wind, Brass and Percussion departments.
Events: Thursday 14 April, 1pm
Tickets: £5
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